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2023 Best Value Information Science Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$11,781 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$75,213 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Science Master's Degree School for You

Information Science is one of the most popular subjects to study in North Carolina. With 224 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 5th out of all the majors we track in the state.

Today's computer science students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Best Value Information Science Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for IS students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Information Science Master's Degree Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Information Science

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the best value school in North Carolina for information science students working on their master’s degree. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Chapel Hill are $12,566 per year.

UNC Chapel Hill did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list.

Read full report on Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend North Carolina Central University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. North Carolina Central University is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of Durham.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at North Carolina Central University are $7,641 per year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Strayer University - North Carolina is a great value for information science students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Morrisville, Strayer University - North Carolina is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Strayer University - North Carolina are $15,135 a year.

Read full report on Information Science at Strayer University - North Carolina

Best Value Information Science Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Information Science Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
West Virginia 60
Louisiana 126
Georgia 413
Tennessee 11
Mississippi 1
Virginia 532
Arkansas 71
Alabama 76
Florida 404
South Carolina 117
Kentucky 106

Information Science is one of 10 different types of computer science programs to choose from.

IS Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Information Science 18,325

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Technology 40,555
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The Opte Project.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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